I do love the indian tradition of flip flops as proper motorcycle footware.

I saw a family of 7 on a vespa once in Egypt.

aw crap, she got the Williams job just after marrying Toto, who owned part of Williams at the time.

chocking on my own vomit right now.  

so, like everything crypto, it is a pyramid scheme for laundering money from criminal enterprise....

I never really made the connection that Susie Wolff was married to Toto until I was watching this year’s F1-Deadliest-Survivor-Naked season on Netflix.

given that I hope she got her shot at Williams & FE team principal based on talent more than the Toto association...

and the port authority is a massive source of graft for NJ politicians

williams was doing well last year, clearly McL and Ferrari have put some effort into upping their game.

when in F1 you consistently see RB able to do a pit stop .3-.5 second faster than every other team and a full second faster than some, it matters.

I get that loveable goofball is his official public persona, but that ain’t gonna sell me his wine.

for a celebrity wine reference, MJK from Tool was introduced to good wine during their first trip to Australia and he described it as like a light being switched on. over the next 15 years he became a serious student of…

+1 for dedicated “autonomous” lanes

just like they did with EZ-Pass, start with 1 (new lane, like the dedicated high cap commuter lanes) and every couple years trade a manual lane for an autonomous lane

the icewines from the niagara peninsula can be quite good (as are some from the okanagan)

when it originally happened (and for about the first 15 years after) the salt concentration in the water was not much higher than the ocean, so it was like an inland sea.  but very quickly the water started to evaporate and the salt concentration got higher and higher, eventually killing all the fish and making the…

what this really means is that in about 5 years when I am in the market to pick up a lightly used Class A, there will be a glut on the market and I will get a fantastic deal.

long haul trucking in the US is not going away any time soon. that would require massive investment in and expansion of the rail network (not gonna happen) and a willingness on the part of the public to wait more than 1 day for their shit to get delivered (also not gonna happen)

I don’t want to sound like a snob either, but the canadian wine laws are batshit.

while I like danny ric, I have no confidence in his ability to know the difference between a gallon jug of gallo “burgundy” and a fine bottle of Nuits St. Georges...

~$2.1B/year flows into the MTA from bridge & tunnel tolls each year. that seems like a lot of green, but the annual budget is ~$17B

yes, they should and they should also have a consistent set of stewards from race to race.

a huge contributor to inconsistent rulings race to race is the different steward crews at each race. they should be paid professionals who go to every race just like the safety car driver and race director.

salton sea only exists due to an industrial accident (poorly built canal blew out and dumped all its water into the basin for 2 years)

salton sea exists because a man made canal overflowed massively due to shoddy construction. like great salt lake in Utah, it has no natural outlet and no or nearly no natural inflow. it is basically a giant industrial accident.

it contains massive concentrations of rare earth elements in an exceptionally easy to access…